October 2010
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Some sort of FAQ 01
At the beginning of the week, the Australian writer John Birmingham wrote a blog post (What secrets are worth keeping?) in which he asked some important questions and which I thought deserved answers because they are likely to be questions that many other people have as well. So I have taken some of his concerns to form the basis of a sort of FAQ.
I have done my best to provide answers but please...
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“A feather in the cap for Mr Assange.
Being declared an assassination-worthy...”
– Thank you Emberplume who made this comment in reply to this article: WikiLeaks should be declared ‘enemy combatants’, says Fox News contributor | Media | The Guardian
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Wikileaks Threatens Journalism and Espionage →
The following was posted on cryptome.org in response to this article at the New York Times.
Sharing Secrets at Arm’s Length October 30, 2010
Cryptome: This New York Times attack on Wikileaks and Julian Assange makes the case for why Wikileaks and those like it cannot trust journalists any more than spies. Both journalists and spies hide behind law and special privilege. In that process...
“Apparently, the fact that Assange is not and never was an American citizen is no...”
– The wretched mind of the American authoritarian - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Who is responsible for giving irresponsible hacks like Seth Lipsky a job? Moronic hate like this what composes the stereotype of The Ugly American. The world really is watching you know.
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“The truth, of course, is that if this vast treasury of secret reports had proved...”
– Robert Fisk: The Shaming of America - The Independent (via greatleapsideways)
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BBC News - Newsnight - US soldier on aftermath of... →
One of the criticisms of the material that Wikileaks releases is that it lacks “context”. These statements always come from those who want the audience to understand the soldier’s point of view. These same parties are silent about the context and point of view of those who have been injured or died in these incidents.
How has it come to this, that the victims of crime who have...
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Truth Surfacing
If you have ever been lied to a lot and thereby cheated out of control over your own life, you know how it feels to wake up to that. You feel indignant and sometimes down right rageful.
It does of course, depend on the size of the deceptions and the significance of them to your life. Some lies are so enormous and significant that the victims simply cannot face them. Some trust was so freely and...
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“We have crushed a number of bastards in this organisation, all the way from...”
– Julian Assange http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GggAHKqFXdo&NR=1#t=5m13s
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Truth Cafe': Frago 242: U.S. Complicity and... →
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Frago 242: U.S. Complicity and Cover-Up of Iraq Torture Exposed by Tom Burghardt / October 25th, 2010
On Friday, the whistleblowing web site WikiLeaks released nearly 400,000 classified Iraq war documents, the largest leak of secret information in U.S. history.
Explosive revelations contained in…
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“From what I can tell, the primary significance of the leak is the act itself:...”
– Defying a Superpower by Robert Koehler — Antiwar.com
Uppity peaceniks!
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OpEdNews - Article: Xbox versus WikiLeaks →
Very thoughtful observations on how computer games are used to recruit teenagers for war and how it contrasts with the hacker movement’s origins.
For OpEdNews: John Grant - Writer
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
-Opening line in William Gibson’s Neuromancer
I recently took a tour of Best Buys to see what’s going on in the world of...
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AFP: Arab League urges action on WikiLeaks... →
CAIRO — The Arab League called on Friday for those behind the “crimes against humanity” contained in leaked Iraq war documents published by the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks to be brought to justice.
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Ad hominem - Wikipedia →
Ad hominem abuse
Ad hominem abuse (also called personal abuse or personal attacks) usually involves insulting or belittling one’s opponent in order to invalidate his or her argument, but can also involve pointing out factual but ostensible character flaws or actions which are irrelevant to the opponent’s argument. This tactic is logically fallacious because insults and even true...
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Pentagon response to publication of logs | Iraq... →
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism sent two letters – which listed a number of significant allegations regarding US forces and US defence policy – to the Department of Defense Press Office at the Pentagon, so as to provide an opportunity to respond in the interest of fairness.
Among the specific questions the Bureau asked the Pentagon to respond to were the following:
We allege...
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Wikileaks and the Swedish Immigration Policy on... →
Stockholm (AINA) — WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history, reports that shed new light on the Swedish asylum and migration policy. Nuri Kino, a Swedish journalist who has reported extensively on Iraqi refugees in Sweden, is demanding that the documents should be used for decisions in every Iraqi asylum case in Sweden.
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“The truth must come first, because without the truth no public policy is...”
– LiveLeak.com - BBC interview with Julian Assange Founder of Wikileaks,27/7/10.
Buy Wikileaks' founder a beer | ZDNet →
Like most people who get too close to government, our David Gewirtz thinks Wikileaks is the worst thing evah.
Frankly they haven’t told me anything I didn’t suspect before. War is hell. Innocents die. There is no such thing as a bloodless bloodbath. We all get blood on our hands when we choose to go to war.
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Hundreds of civilians gunned down at checkpoints |... →
It was lunchtime on September 6 2008 when a pickup truck travelling down a highway in Ninewah province, northwest Iraq, met a US convoy driving in the opposite direction. The driver of the truck was elderly and had cataracts.
Has WikiLeaks landed in cyberattack crosshairs? |... →
Forget China or Al Qaeda. In a twist that would have been inconceivable even a few months ago, the WikiLeaks.org Web site is being proposed as the first public target for a U.S. government cyberattack. Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20020835-38.html#ixzz13hyH9TmG
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Google Translate: Danish Government knew about... →
Danish Foreign Ministry knew about torture & killings. Story hits danish TV news.
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WikiLeaks: Spy for the little guy - Americas - Al... →
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Injustice in the age of Obama - Opinion - Al... →
Iraq war logs: media reaction around the world |... →
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Files chart al-Qaeda's rise in Iraq - Secret Iraq... →
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MI6 has nothing to do with torture, says chief -... →
MI6 does not pass on intelligence to foreign agencies if it believes that it could result in torture, even if it could prevent terrorist activity taking place, the head of the service said today.
In the first public speech by a serving Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), as MI6 officially known, Sir John Sawers strongly defended its methods while appealing for understanding for the...
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“You never know what the outcome is but the truth is always the best place to...”
– Frontline Club 10/25/10 12:51PM, on USTREAM. World News
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Decapitation as an Act of Revenge « Raphaels Blog →
It is encouraging to see ordinary people making their own inquiries into the Iraq War Logs.
Warning: Image of a severed head at the bottom of the linked post, but if you’re careful not to scroll all the way down quickly then you can read the whole report without seeing the image.
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Rap News #1 favourite
Good news for The Juice Media Rap News crew. Their video has become the No.1 favourited video on YouTube within a day of being uploaded. Well deserved guys!
Click here to see the video with special guest appearance from Julian Assange himself!
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American Friends Service Committee: Email - No... →
For years Iraqis have been saying that if the American public only knew what was happening in their country they could never support the war there.
We now know more, and with greater certainty. The U.S. military is telling us in their own words.
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“WikiLeaks deserves full respect, support and protection. Australia has enacted...”
– Google Translate: Julian Assange is a traitor?
(Quote translation provided by @lyn_d75 on twitter.com)
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Gay City News > US Saw Anti-Gay Iraq Murders in... →
“The male was shot (___) times in the chest, and a note was discovered on the body stating that the man had been killed by ___ for stealing cars and being homosexual,” read the January 1, 2005, memo, in which some words were redacted.
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WatchFrontline Club 10/25/10 12:51PM, Frontline Club 10/25/10 12:51PM frontlineclub on USTREAM. World News
Something odd happened to the link so I’ve had to delete the previous post and repost it.
US Senate to Mull Anti-WikiLeaks Law →
truthcafe:
Should be;… Americans have all American war criminals indicted and arrested. How is it that the American law makers are above the law?! - Ed.
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Failed accountability, WikiLeaks show true cost of... →
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Documents leaked by WikiLeaks seen by lawyers,... →
LONDON - It has been one of the most bitter legal debates during the so-called war on terror — who’s to blame for torture and how many degrees of separation are needed to dodge a lawsuit?
The answer may lie in recently leaked documents, which lawyers and human rights groups hope will be a treasure trove of evidence that could prove U.S. and other coalition forces broke a cardinal rule of...
